Rail-protector.



D. C. RODGERS. RAIL PROTECTOR. APPLICATION FILED 11212.14, 1914.

Patezited June 30,1914.

- scribed. The free ends which has openings DANIEL C. ECDGER-S, 0F CANTON, OHIO.

RAIL-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 30, 1914.

Application filed April 14, 1914. Serial No. 831,806.

To all cello/n it may concern Be it known that I, Daivinr C. Rononns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of l )hio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in means for sustaining a rail upon a tie, to prevent the same from tilting, or moving in a lateral direction. the object being to provide a simple. cheap and eflective device of this class which may be easily and quickly applied to or detached from a rail and which shall be removably and adjust-ably secured upon a tie.

In the drawing: Figure l is a perspective view illustrating; the application of the improvement, and Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the device arranged upon a tie but with the rails removed Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 designates an ordinary wooden tie, and 2 the rails which rest upon the tie.

My improvement may, and preferably does, include the employment of a metallic rail plate, whici is designated by the numeral and which underlies the rails and for the reception of spikes which pass therethrough into the tie, the

heads of said spikes engaging with the longitudinal edges of the base flanges of the rails. Each of the rail plates is formed upon one of its ends with a central extension el, the longitudinal edges of which being preferably beveled, as at 5.

The numerals 6 designate arms which are connected to one of the sides of the tie 1. These arms have reduced ends, one of which overlaps the other, vided with a registering opening through which passes the securing element 7. The arms or members 6 are provided with additional openings R which are provided for the reception of securing elements whereby the said arms are sustained against rotation, for a purpose which will presently be deof each of the members or arms 6 is formed with what I will term a head 5), the, said head having a depressed portion 10, one of the ends of which being provided with vertically disposed lugs 11, while the second or opposite end is formed with an outwardly inclined lip 12. The depression is of sufiicient width to receive the base flange of the rail, and when I securing elements the arms are swung downwardly upon their pivots, the lips 12, which are arranged upon the inner sides of the heads, will contact with the inner base flanges of the rails to hold the same against tilting movement as will be readily understood. The additional 13 are passed through the openings 8 to within the tie to sustain the arms or members 6 in such rail engaging position. The heads, at their lower corners, are 'ireferably formed with angular extensions 14 each of which being provided with an opening through which passes a securing member 15 which ser-es as an additional means for sustaining the heads in engagement with the rails.

The lower horizontal wall formed by each of the depressions 10 has a transverse channel 16, the-opposite side walls of which being beveled upwardly toward each other, as indicated by the numerals 17, and the said channel is of a width equaling that of the extension 4 of the plate 3, the side walls 17 engaging with the beveled longitudinal edges 5 of the said extension, which provide means the said ends being profor effectively securing the rail plate upon the arms or members 6.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the simplicity 0*" the device as well as the advantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in the art to which such invention appertains without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. In combination with a rail and a tie for the rail, of oppositely extending arms centrally pivoted to one side of thetie, each of said arms having their outer ends formed with a head which is depressed to proviu an outer vertical wall and an inner angular lip which is adapted to engage with the in ner base flanges of the rails, and means passing through the said arms to within the tie for sustaining the said members immovahly upon the tie.

2. In combination, a rail, a tie. a rail plate upon the tie provided with an extension having beveled sides, an arm pivotallv secured to the tie, said arm having one of its ends formed with a head. the head having an upper depression providing an inner angular rail engaging lip, the head having its lower corner formed with an angular extension the lower wall of the depression being Q mewee provided with a chennei, the side walls of for sustaining the rails upon the plate and which being beveled and adapted to receive tie. m and engaging the beveled edges of the'ex- In testimony whereof I effix my signature tension of the rail plate, means essing in presence of two Witnesses.

, through the angular extension of ti e head DANIEL C. RQDGERS.

for sustaining the arm immovably upon the Witnesses: tie, and means passing through the tie and 1 JOHN JACOB, J 12, engaging with the base flanges of the rails ULIVIA Dunn. 

